"Fill it in!"
At Ji Hong's command, the workers standing around the grave with shovels began tossing earth into it, one shovelful at a time.
Ji Hong had instructed them to keep the fill even and level, so everyone watched how much earth they added and how quickly they worked.
Once the grave was half filled, Ji Hong called a halt.
He walked over to the box and took out a Tomb-Guarding Stone.
Only the character for "suppress" was inscribed on it. The lettering was red, apparently filled with cinnabar.
Chen Miao sensed nothing unusual about the Tomb-Guarding Stone.
But he said nothing, simply watching Ji Hong work.
Carrying the Tomb-Guarding Stone, Ji Hong walked to one of the four corners of the grave pit, lined it up, and let go.
The Tomb-Guarding Stone landed squarely, sinking into the loose soil below.
He then repeated the same action.
After the last Tomb-Guarding Stone fell, Chen Miao was surprised to discover a strange fluctuation emanating between the four stones.
A feng shui formation?!
Chen Miao was astonished.
Once placed in the grave's four corners, those seemingly ordinary Tomb-Guarding Stones had actually formed a small feng shui formation!
Yet when the four stones had been together in the box, they had produced no effect at all.
Was it because of the grave itself? Or had Ji Hong done something inside it to activate the Tomb-Guarding Stones?
Chen Miao was certain that Ji Hong had done nothing beyond dropping the stones into the grave.
He could not figure it out, but he did not ask.
If Ji Hong could tell him, he naturally would. If he could not, then it was a Grave Keeper's secret.
While Chen Miao was pondering this, Ji Hong told the workers to resume filling the grave.
As shovelful